A White Teacher Talks About Race

by Landsman, Julie

• ISBN13: 9781607090649
• ISBN10: 1607090643
• Edition: Teacher
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Veteran teacher Julie Landsman leads the reader through a day of teaching and reflection about her work with high school students who are from a variety of cultures. She speaks honestly about issues of race, poverty, institutional responsibility, and white privilege by engaging the reader in the experiences of a day in the classroom with some of her remarkable students. Throughout the day, we meet bigotry head-on, struggle with questions of racial identity, and find cultural conflict in the corridors of the school building. Along the way, we come face to face with Tyrone, a young African-American student grappling with the realities of discrimination in suburbia. We encounter Sheila, a teenage mother struggling to raise her baby in poverty, and we get to know Sarah, a white girl living on the streets of Minneapolis. Through the author's eyes, we begin to understand the complexities of teaching in today's society and we learn within the pages of this book, if only just for a moment, what it feels like to be the other.

Author Biography

Julie Landsman is Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Introduction: Our Changing World: A Cause for Celebration	p. vii
Before School: What I Bring	p. 1
Waiting for First Hour	p. 9
First Hour: Recognizing Oneself	p. 19
Second Hour: History and Literature	p. 31
Third Hour: Student Voices as the Center of the Class	p. 47
Lunch Hour: Students' Lives	p. 59
Fourth Hour: Connections	p. 69
Interlude: Twenty-Four Seven	p. 81
Fifth Hour: Representing	p. 83
My White Power World	p. 93
Sixth Hour: Expectations	p. 105
After School: Training Teachers	p. 123
At Night: Community	p. 133
Living in Different Worlds	p. 141
Celebrations at School	p. 149
Celebrations at Home	p. 153
Resistance: The Power of White Activism	p. 163
Epilogue	p. 169
A Final Note to My Readers	p. 173
References	p. 177
Acknowledgments	p. 179
Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Economically Struggling Students	p. 183
Classroom and Building Assessment: High Expectations	p. 187
About the Author	p. 189
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